Category: Lessons for Sri Lanka

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Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics / UNHRC Resolutions / Western hypocrisy

Responding to Smear Campaigns: Why Facts still matter in Sri Lanka’s Story

    When facts cannot be countered, character assassination begins. When critics cannot counter facts, they turn to insults. Too often, anyone who names inconvenient truths is met not with evidence but with ridicule...

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Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics

Why are 2,000 Refugees being brought to Sri Lanka when the UNHCR Office has closed?

    Recent reports indicate that a Boeing 747 landed in Eilat, Israel, transporting Palestinian refugees to the UAE and Sri Lanka. While around 40,000 refugees are reportedly being relocated, unconfirmed sources claim approximately...

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Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics

South Asian Spring: Why Expats Should Not Get Digital Vote in Sri Lanka

  The Government of Sri Lanka’s recent announcement on granting voting rights to expats is a gamble with sovereignty. Handing the ballot to millions who neither live under Sri Lanka’s laws, nor share its...

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Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics

The Yahapalana Regime (2015–2019): A Comprehensive Exposé

  The Yahapalana government, installed in 2015 after a US–India regime-change operation to remove Mahinda Rajapaksa, promised “good governance,” anti-corruption, and democracy. Instead, it systematically dismantled Sri Lanka’s post-war gains. Between 2015 and 2019,...

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / UNHRC Resolutions

Alert to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry: Implementing UNHRC Demands Will Lead to Government Ouster

    Since 2009, the UNHRC has overstepped its mandate, pushing demands that strip Sri Lanka of sovereignty — imposing foreign-run courts, forcing constitutional changes, and erasing LTTE crimes. These are political agendas, not...

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Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UNHRC Resolutions

Sri Lankans Say: “No Need for a Truth Commission – The Truth is already known”

    Sri Lanka suffered a three-decade conflict led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE remains a proscribed terrorist movement in 32 countries. For 30 years, the Sri Lankan state...

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From Europe’s Colored Revolutions – Arab Spring to Asian Spring: The Repeat Playbook of Youth Manipulated Regime Change

  Across Europe (the Colored Revolutions), the Arab world (Arab Spring), and parts of Asia (the “Asian Spring”), movements that appeared as spontaneous youth uprisings often bore the fingerprints of external intervention and local...

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Sri Lanka does not need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission — Terrorists need to reconcile with us, not the other way around

The recent statement by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister at the UN Human Rights Council outlined the government’s commitment to domestic reforms in human rights, justice, and reconciliation. While many of these initiatives — anti-corruption...